Ostyak
Americannoun
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Ostyaks,
plural
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Ostyak
plural
noun
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a member of an Ugrian people living in NW Siberia E of the Urals
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the language of this people, belonging to the Finno-Ugric family: related to Hungarian
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Etymology
Origin of Ostyak
1715–25; < Russian ostyák originally a Khanty, later used for the Samoyedic Selkup, the Ket, and certain Mansi groups < Khanty ās-jax, plural of as-xo one living on the Ob, equivalent to Ās the river Ob + xo man
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Compare the man’s beating his fate-stone with the treatment the Ostyak gives his puppet.
From Indian Fairy Tales by Anonymous
The reindeer, after he is dead, is of as much use to the Ostyak, as when he was alive; for his skin is his master's clothing.
From Far Off by Favell Lee Mortimer
The Ostyak knows how to keep his balance, by waving his long staff in the air, while the deer trots briskly along.
From Far Off by Favell Lee Mortimer
The Ostyak lets no part of his body be uncovered but just his face, and that would freeze, if he were not to rub it often with his hands, covered over with hairy reindeer gloves.
From Far Off by Favell Lee Mortimer
The Samoyed tent is commonly covered with reindeer skins, the Ostyak tent with birch bark.
From The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II by Alexander Leslie
He wishes the Ostyaks to belong to the Greek church, and he has tried to bribe them with presents of cloth to be baptized; and a good many have been baptized.
From Far Off by Favell Lee Mortimer
But though the Ostyaks are poor, they possess a great treasure in their dogs, for these creatures are as useful as horses, and much more sensible.
From Far Off by Favell Lee Mortimer
ERMAN, on the fat-tailed Kirghisian sheep. -on the dogs of the Ostyaks.
From The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 2 by Charles Darwin
The Ostyaks have another, and a greater treasure than dogs; they have reindeer.
From Far Off by Favell Lee Mortimer
These very same words have been applied to the Ostyaks, the Samoyedes, the Eskimos, the Dayaks, the Aleoutes, the Papuas, and so on, by the highest authorities.
From Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution by Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin, Prince
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